Ice Dancing, Free Dance
Today’s competition opened with the Free Dance. Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder of France danced away with the gold medal, their first ever in the Grand Prix Series. Russia’s Jana Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski earned the silver medal, and the bronze went to Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA).
It was an interesting competition with many different programs. Skating to “The Piano” soundtrack by Michael Nyman, Delobel/Schoenfelder told the love story between a mute aristocratic woman and a common man. The European Champions incorporated the use of sign language into their program and completed a beautiful one-armed rotational lift, a curve-rotational lift, and a straight line lift. They showed intricate footwork, earning a level four for both the circular and non touching midline step sequence. However, Schoenfelder stepped out of a twizzle. The French were awarded 94.53 points (46.90 element score/47.63 program component score) and were ranked second in the Free Dance. Overall they held on to first place with a total of 194.41 points. “This is our very first victory in the Grand Prix, and we’ve waited a long time for it”, Schoenfelder said. “We are disappointed with our performance today. It wasn’t perfect technically. I missed a twizzle, and the program lacked flow”, he added.
Khokhlova/Novitski delivered an exciting and powerful dance set to “Night on Bald Mountain” and “In the Hall of the Mountain King”, in which she portrays a witch and he is a demon. The program featured a dance combination spin, smooth steps, and difficult lifts that showed off Khoklhova’s flexibility. The 2006 Grand Prix finalists received a level four for all elements but for the non touching midline (level three) and scored 97.97 points (52.80/46.17), improving their previous personal best by six points. They won the Free Dance and racked up a total score of 191.01 points. “We are very pleased with our performance and with our marks. We showed everything we can do”, Khokhlova said. “Our costumes were a collective idea of us, our coaches, choreographer and costume designer. To reflect the theme, we chose dark colors. His costume also contains red to symbolize fire. My costume was designed to be more revealing”. The couple got a costume deduction as Novitski wore tights, which is not allowed.
Davis/White went for a romantic theme, dancing to “Eleanor Rigby” and Eleanor’s Dream” by The Beatles. The 2006 World Junior bronze medalists executed a straight line-rotational lift with changes of positions, a level-four circular step sequence, a serpentine lift and rotational lift to earn 89.22 points (49.40/40.82), which was a new seasonal best for them. Overall, the Americans got 176.21 points. “We are excited about our first Grand Prix medal. This is something we have been looking forward to”, Davis said. “We can skate our Free Dance much better, but we’re happy for now."
Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) finished fourth with a dramatic “La Traviata” routine (168.75 points). Pernelle Carron/Mathieu Jost were fifth. They skated to “Nocturne” by Frederic Chopin (159.26 points).
Delobel/Schoenfelder picked up 15 points and will meet Khokhlova/Novitski (13 points) again at the NHK Trophy in two weeks. Davis/White earned 11 points and now have 20 from their two events. |
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